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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. I mean, we can talk a lot about this, but that’s a little bit about where we’re headed on that, but it’s definitely a change in selling process, and then it’s definitely a change in the journey. It’s about adoption.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

” This definition, to reiterate my prior post on the subject , is most useful when it applies not merely to “time-is-money”, but to the speed of learning. Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

It made the rounds in tech circles online. The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. This vision was not aligned with his investors, or his Co-founder and CTO, both of whom would leave the company.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tom Tunguz

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Claire Hughes Johnson : Yeah, definitely. Who is this person? What are they looking for?

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How to Close the Enterprise When You’re Just a Startup (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

First strategy here is to build the relationship on a human level , and I think one element of that is you’ve got to get in person. It doesn’t always have to be in person, but at the very least you’ve got to utilize video and you’ve got to utilize personal charisma and you’ve got to build trust with that person.